Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While chairing a joint congressional subcommittee hearing on the SST two weeks ago, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire labeled the program a waste. At issue was whether Congress should appropriate another $290 million to help industry develop the aircraft. The Government has already spent more than $700 million, and plans to spend a total of at least $1.3 billion. Along with the spiraling cost, Senator Proxmire was angered by the Department of Transportation's failure to present reports on the ecological effects of the SST to Russell Train, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality...
Bang-Zone. Like Proxmire, ecologists are concerned about the potential threat of the SST to the environment. Many of their misgivings are documented in the S/S/T and Sonic Boom Handbook, a hot-selling (150,000 copies to date) paperback edited by William Shurcliff, director of a pressure group called the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. The Handbook contends that a single SST, flying from New York to California, would leave a "bang-zone" 50 miles wide by 2,000 miles long. But some tests indicate that this bang at SST's operational height of 60,000 ft. will...
State police arrested the nine on Earth Day on charges of disorderly conduct and trespassing, while dispersing a group of about 100 people who had assembled in the TWA lobby that evening to protest construction of the SST...
...demonstrators-none of them Harvard students-were arrested in the TWA terminal at the airport while protesting construction of the SST (Supersonic transport), which will begin operation in the mid-70's. No permit was granted for the demonstration...
Almost all the Houses and some of the graduate schools held ecology forums yesterday as part of the Earth Day celebration. The topics covered a wide range, including the SST, and population, pollution, and transportation problems...